Empty halls, straight jackets and a crumbling autopsy room: Haunting photos capture abandoned mental asylums around America Photographer Christopher Payne spent six years exploring empty mental ...

Early days included strange devices, diagnoses in a system where Utah State Hospital was only treatment option and not ...

Also, this rat rod named the Straight Jacket Express is powered by a 500+ horsepower Cummins 6BT. ... This 1951 Ford Stewart Wagon Rat Rod was Originally a Patient Transport for an Insane Asylum.

The long-deserted Medfield State Hospital makes for a haunting site, inspiring filmmakers for years with its dark, shadowy ...

the state's insane wards; a tour of observation in the utica asylum. how the lunatics enjoy themselves and how they are treated-- strait jackets out of date.

But Christopher Payne's new photography book, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, is an arrestingly beautiful look at facilities where generations of patients once lived ...

It was more civilized when we banished them to asylums and put them in strait jackets and gave them the help and the drugs that they needed in an institution. This is not civilized, to let people ...

ALLEGED BRUTAL TREATMENT OF THE PATIENTS BY THE OFFICERS. Share full article. ... July 15.--Ex-Policeman Michael Uhlman, of Geddes, who has just been released from the insane asylum at Utica, ...